A little over a week ago, I made a post that was essentially just me rambling about my day as a method to come up with a post while sharing a few pictures I took and the what not. I'm still trying to find a stride here, and I guess it was my attempt at just a regular old pointless "blogging" post.

Anyways, an admirable member who helps out a lot of minnows via resteems etc., @mudcat36 , took the time to read my post and left me some advice. I actually received quite a good amount of advice on the post from various users due to my persistent commenting. If you've read any of my posts about my experience so far on the platform, you know I firmly believe that commenting is the key to newbie success here on Steemit. Among other tips and bits of encouragement, mudcat's advised me to check out the #walkwithme tag and thought my style of writing might be fitting for the tag.

So here is my first whack at it. I hope some of you might enjoy and hopefully we can make some friends.

I blew it.

I've been trying to be fairly consistent with my activity here. I try to make at least 30 constructive comments a day, for instance, and have fallen far behind that goal. I have been pretty busy, sure, but I've had the ability to do more, and just got a little lazy for a bit. But I'm committing to getting back on track!

I spent my weekend snowboarding, throwing sticks for my dog to chase on a frozen pond, eating unhealthy amounts of popcorn and saying goodbye to a furry member of our little family.

One of our two mice, Niña, passed away on Friday. I noticed her when I went to change her water. We have no idea how old she was, but we guessed she was pretty damn old and were surprised it had taken this long, honestly. I have a few pallets in the backyard, so I made her a little coffin/box with them and burned her name into the lid with a soldering iron and sealed her up. We'll have to bury her once the ground thaws(it's supposed to tomorrow).

Niña ended up with us after a friend had stolen her from an apartment where she was a feed mouse in training. I'm not really sure how she ended up in our possession. Shortly beforehand, I found a mouse scurrying around our kitchen cabinet and made him a home on top of a bureau. I named him Mr. Jingles, after the mouse in The Green Mile. If you haven't seen The Green Mile, stop reading this nonsense and go watch it.

So we ended up with two mice in a period of two months after never really being all that interested in rodents beforehand. Life's weird.

There's a fairly large man-made pond near our house where I frequently take our Rottie pup for runs. This is his third winter, so he's still pretty excited about ice. We spent a few hours watching him slip around and get embarrassed. We wanted to walk around the perimeter, but it was absolutely miserable out, so we kicked that idea.

The rest of the time I spent snowboarding and regretting my lack of activity on Steemit. So here I am, writing about nothing. I plan to do more posts in this style in the future, hopefully with more interesting content, haha. Or maybe not, I don't know. If you think this post was dumb, feel free to tell me!

Later tonight I will be writing my first Steemit horror film review, so if that sounds interesting, stay tuned!

Thanks for sticking around!

Manna - Earn what we all deserve

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